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metronews.ca Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Stranger’s kindness fulfils St. Patrick’s Day wish Halifax to Dublin. Plea online brings Irishman to forgotten family grave andrew FIFIELD
andrew.fifield@metronews.ca
While Canadians were packing pubs from coast to coast on St. Patrick’s Day, a man in Dublin answered a request from a stranger across the sea. It started when Andrew Bourke of Halifax brought an odd request to the social news site Reddit on the weekend. “This is the grave of my great uncle, who was badly burned in a flying accident and died a few days later,” he wrote. He included a photo of the tombstone of Lieut. Thomas Leslie Bourke, who died more than 50 years before Andrew was born. “Can someone drink a pint
there tomorrow … or maybe just place a flower for me?” Bourke found a photo of the tombstone while searching his great uncle’s name last year. “I was sad that the grave looked so uncared for,” Bourke told Metro. With little more to go on than a photo, it seemed unlikely anyone would actually make it to the grave. But after a few people vowed to hoist a brew in Lt. Bourke’s memory — just not at Mount Jerome Cemetery — user elmoslats chimed in. “It was a bitch to find. Bought some flowers,” he wrote. Included was a new photo of the same grave, now decorated with a simple token. “I found the houses that are in the background,” elmostats explained. “I then stood at the point where I was looking at the houses at the same angle.... It took about 30 minutes.” “I honestly cried,” Bourke later confirmed. “Just a little bit ... but wow. Just wow.”
Death brings fix for hand sanitizer The 2010 death of a man in Alberta has changed the way hand sanitizer is provided in hospitals. A doctor at Vulcan Hospital determined it was safe for a drunken Kurt Kraus to sober up in an RCMP cell. A nurse suspected the alcoholic had ingested hand sanitizer at the hospital, but no one knew he had also taken 10 anti-depressant pills. Hospitals have removed all portable bottles and replaced them with wallmounted dispensers in public areas. The Canadian Press Illegal immigration
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Finding the grave was no small task — founded in 1836, Mount Jerome Cemetery has seen more than 300,000 burials. Reddit
Refusing pipeline would be a betrayal: Redford
Alberta Premier Alison Redford in Ottawa. Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press
Alberta
A U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal would have far-reaching implications for the Canada-U.S. relationship, Alberta Premier Alison Redford warns. “I don’t think this is as simple as yes or no on a project,” she told The Canadian Press on Monday during a trip to Ottawa to promote her energy strategy. “I do think this could fundamentally change the relationship.” TransCanada Corp. needs approval from U.S. President Barack Obama in order to
build its $7-billion bitumen pipeline from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast. A refusal would throw into question decades of CanadaU.S. economic co-operation and integration, Redford said. “I think it would show that we’re not as trusted as partners as we used to think that we were,” the premier said. She argued that the original free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States included formal commitments to maintain the energy relationship, with
Canada promising to remain a supplier and the United States committing to remaining a customer. “We need to make sure that those relationships continue,” she said. “They matter to the continent. And we’re a very blessed continent. We have resources, we have people, we have security. And it’s important for us to remember it’s a result of an incredibly successful partnership over the last decades, hundreds of years.”
The federal government is being criticized for approving a reality TV show on Canada’s border security after camera crews filmed the arrest of several men in Vancouver last week. But Public Safety Minister Vic Toews isn’t backing down, saying that illegal immigrants cost taxpayers millions of dollars a year. The Canadian Press
Algeria
Canadian remains found at gas plant The RCMP say Canadian remains have been found at the site of a standoff in Algeria between terrorists and gas-plant workers. But the Mounties refused to say whether the remains were discovered among the al-Qaida-linked attackers or the hostages killed. The Canadian Press
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